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A man pushed an Allentown woman down a flight of steps Thursday night, leaving her with bumps, a bruised shoulder and a deep gash to her right knee, according to police radio reports. City police were looking of a 6-foot-tall man, last seen running west from the brick rowhouse in the 400 block of W. Green Street, Allentown, where the 32-year-old woman was injured. Police called the 10:35 p.m. attack a domestic assault. The woman was taken by Allentown EMS to the hospital with moderately serious injuries.

An Allentown woman is accused of stealing $27,195 from a man while he was prison, Lower Saucon Township police said Sunday. Lori Ann Kern, 50, who had lived on Cabin Lane in the township, used Wilmer Stofko's checking account and bank cards to take money from him for two years ending this year, police alleged. Stofko was sentenced in 2009 to three to 10 years in state prison after pleading guilty to a felony firearms offense, according to Northampton County Court records. Police in Bethlehem said they seized rifles and shotguns from his home after he twice called 911 with a noise complaint, the second time threatening a "shootout" if police did not return.

An Allentown woman admitted Tuesday to stabbing to death her boyfriend in her South Ninth Street apartment, but insisted he assaulted her first — a claim authorities say isn't supported by evidence. Carolina Feliz, 37, pleaded guilty to third-degree murder, admitting she stabbed Desiderio "Archie" Morales, 52, of Palmerton, in the neck during an argument on the morning of Oct. 10, 2012. Feliz said she went out drinking with her mother the night before and anticipated a fight with Morales, so she put a knife under her pillow.

LOWER SAUCON TOWNSHIP Allentown woman hurt, charged in accident on Interstate 78 An Allentown woman was hurt Monday morning when her car rear-ended the car of an Allentown man on Interstate-78 in Lower Saucon Township, police said. Elizabeth M. Miklas, 26, was driving east on I-78 at 7:15 a.m. when a car driven by Jeffrey M. Kidd, 63, slowed for traffic and Miklas' car collided with the rear of Kidd's, state police at Belfast said. Miklas' injury did not require hospitalization, police said.

A 78-year-old Allentown woman has died from injuries received in an automobile accident earlier this month in Newark, N.J. Gladys Negron of the 2300 block of S. 10 t h Street was pronounced dead in Lehigh Valley Hospita-Salisbury Township at 8:47 a.m. Tuesday, the Lehigh County Coroner's office said. Her death was ruled an accident due to multiple blunt-force trauma. Negron was a passenger in car involved in a two-vehicle crash in Newark, N.J., May 4. Tracy Jordan

An Allentown woman was injured Friday afternoon when her sport utility vehicle crashed into an embankment along Route 611 in Upper Mount Bethel Township, police said. Ariel P. Hoffman, 21, was northbound on Route 611 at Sunset Drive at 1:55 p.m. when she lost control of her vehicle, which hit the embankment and rolled, landing on the driver's side, state police at Belfast said. Hoffman, who also has a Nazareth address, suffered moderate injuries in the crash and was taken by Suburban EMS ambulance to Pocono Medical Center, East Stroudsburg, Trooper Timothy J. McDonough said.

An Allentown woman suffered smoke inhalation Friday evening during a kitchen fire and was taken to the hospital. The 60-year-old woman was cooking dinner on the stove for her family in their second-story apartment at 212 N. Sixth St. when the fire flared up, filling the kitchen with smoke, according to fire officials. The victim was Antonia Santiago, according to her son. Officials said residents put the fire out with an extinguisher before firefighters arrived around 7:30 p.m. The fire caused minor damage to the oven.